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[alabamaman]

Discussion with CDI Human Resource Department


I'm very interested in working at CDI, but I do have some questions for you:

I looked on this website http://job.cdi.co.kr/teaching/work.asp and it said, "All instructors are required to receive up to one week of initial training at one of our corporate training centers in Korea prior to their first day of class."

1. Do instructors have to complete this one week of intitial training at one of your corporate training centeres before a labor contract is signed?

2. Korean Immigration Policies prohibited employees from working or participating in work related activities without an E2 Visa. Does your company honor and respect Korean Immigration Policies?

Response

We do require all of our instructors to complete training before a contract is signed. The candidate has to first pass our training, before they can become an instructor at CDI. We at CDI definitely follow the Korean Immigration policies, and therefore, you will received the E2 visa prior to training and instruction.

We hope this clarified any questions you may have had.

Reply

The employer must submit documents to Korean Immigration Officials before the employee obtains an E2 Visa in Japan. A signed labor contract by the employee is one of those documents. Am I making an incorrect assumption?

Reply

You are correct. The employer must submit the documents to receive the visa code for the instructor, in order for the instructor to receive the visa.

Response

On your website it said, "All instructors are required to receive up to one week of initial training at one of our corporate training centers in Korea prior to their first day of class." How much would I get paid for this orientation before obtaining my E2 Visa?

Reply

The training is not paid; it guarantees your position here at CDI. Your visa would be in the steps of being processed during training.

Best,
CDI HR Center

[wylies99]

Boy, sure sounds like trouble with immigration just waiting to happen. They can pull that stuff in the US, but in Korea it comes close to an immigration violation.

[ChuckECheese]

[alabamaman]

[braunshade]

The thing is that NO ONE fails training!

People have quit during training after realizing the amounnt of bs they have to do.

New hires on tourist visas go through the training all the time, then do their visa run to Japan AFTER they have begun teaching.

Some do already have their visas in hand when they arrive in Korea.

Others are Korean citizens.

[EFLtrainer]

[EFLtrainer]

[alabamaman]

[riley]

I was working at CDI over a year ago, and last I looked in the mirror, I was white, same with most of the people I was in training with. So you don't have to be a kyopo to work there.

EFL Trainer:

[Col.Brandon]

Anyway, I'm sure that by now the OP has managed to nit-pick their way out of that job. But that's OK because CDI sucks.

I visited there once and only saw Kyopos in their copyright section... I wonder what kind of quality those products of the California education system were able to produce?

[EFLtrainer]

[riley]

Still, even though they are willing to hire non-kyopo, it's not worth the money.

[xCustomx]

why isn't it worth the money? i know they pay anywhere from 27-40,000/hr depending on qualifications. i also know they don't offer housing, and there is prep involved, but what other options are there besides your average hagwon offering 2.0-2.5 million/month?

i turned down a public school job in both gangnam and with smoe because the thought of having to be at the school for 40 hours a week for 2.2mill wasn't appealing, especially when i could use my time more efficiently

[Col.Brandon]

You can make $500 a day as a private security consultant in Iraq.

[ChuckECheese]